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[Meph]

Golems work. Just doing a bit of testing, next version is pretty much done. Has some hidden features for adv. players as well.

Orcs are too weak you say ? Maybe it is the rusty iron stuff I gave them, should improve on that.

Again: You finished the challenge, so you can pick an easter egg, or item, anything, and I will add it

Could you show the layout at least, or some screenshots ? And these 400 dead things... are they dead, or still move a bit now and then ?

[Meph]

Sorry for the double post, but:

>>> NEW DOWNLOAD <<<

List of changes:
 - 12 new GUI options
 - Drow should sell slaves
 - Golems fixed
 - 6 Secret creatures. Turn the SECRET Setting to OFF if you are a new player.
 - Nerfed necros/healer/drow interactions
 - Fixed all reported bugs
 - New reactions for a lot of the vanilla buildings
 - New reactions for blast furnace, crucible and loading stations
 - Zombie bites might turn people into zombies
 - Custom Truetype Font. Toggle Truetype with F12.

Full Changelog:

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#####   PATCH 1.5   ############
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 - Fixed typo Neter_cap_seed: Missing h.
 - Removed item_toy_trap from dartthrower. This item_toy does not exist anymore. Replaced with: 2 mechanism and 1 log.
 - Changed SKIN_TANNED:NONE:INORGANIC:NETHERWOOD to SKIN_TANNED:NONE:PLANT_MAT:NETHER_CAP, since inorganic skins are not stockpiled.
 - Removed excessive 150 liquids from boil leather reaction.
 - Changed the product amount for bars in the arcfurnace from 1 to 150. now creates one bar instead of 150 bars.
 - Added pig tails seeds to the: press oil from pigtail reaction
 - Fixed typo of plants/plans
 - Renamed axe blades to axe heads, to avoid confusion with the trapcomponent: axe blade.
 - Raised cost of mastiff by 100. Lowered bite skill by 5. lowered bodysize by 3000, lowered speed by +100.
 - Added [CREATURE_CLASS:ARMORABLE_namehere] to the six armored pet races.
 - Added [USE_MATERIAL_TEMPLATE:SHELL:SHELL_TEMPLATE] to the three fake animals for animal mats. NEEDS TESTING.
 - Removed trapavoid from warlocks
 - lowered ignition point of wood by 50 urist.
 - Added reaction to blast furnace:
    - Batch of 8 coke (anthracite)
    - Batch of 6 coke (peat)
    - Batch of 6 silver bars
    - Batch of 6 gold bars
 - Fixed: Itemless embark. I think DF automatically adds items, when none are present ?
 - Added more reactions for the loading/unloading stations:
[PERMITTED_REACTION:LOAD_GEM][PERMITTED_REACTION:UNLOAD_GEM]
[PERMITTED_REACTION:LOAD_BLOCK][PERMITTED_REACTION:UNLOAD_BLOCK]
[PERMITTED_REACTION:LOAD_BAR][PERMITTED_REACTION:UNLOAD_BAR]
 - Fixed the brewing of pig tail ale (now properly called ale, not "drink")
 - Added reaction to cut normal leather into 3 thinner/weaker parts.
 - Added reaction to create a bone throne to craftsman. Just for flavor. (does not respect stack size)
 - Converted all reaction in the Stonecutter to the Stonecraft skill. (was stonecraft, mechanic and mason)
 - Converted all reaction in the guildhall to Teaching skill.
 - Added reaction to create a boulder from a block.
 - Added reaction to make tallow/wax candles in craftsman. No use as of yet, but high value tradegood.
 - Fixed blueprints/plans appearing as random toys/crafts.
 - Added all jobs back to automaton entity file. Hopefully they can now forge again.
 - Added reaction to press coke into diamonds to screw press. Yes, dwarves are that strong.
 - Added reaction to make rope out of rope reed.
 - Added cold metal reactions to crucible. Takes 3 ores, makes 1 bar, without fuel.
   [PERMITTED_REACTION:COLD_COPPER]
   [PERMITTED_REACTION:COLD_TIN]
   [PERMITTED_REACTION:COLD_BRONZE]
   [PERMITTED_REACTION:COLD_SILVER]
   [PERMITTED_REACTION:COLD_GOLD]
   [PERMITTED_REACTION:COLD_IRON]
   [PERMITTED_REACTION:COLD_ALUMINUM]
   [PERMITTED_REACTION:COLD_PLATINUM]
 - Added new reclaim reaction to the craftsman. Unravel any cloth, rip any silk item, rip any yarn item, rip any cloth item.
 - Renamed goblin/orcish adjectives for their weapons for better flavor.
 - Changed zombie syndrome. Biten people have a 15% chance to turn into a zombie after half a season. Beware.
 - To compensate this fact I removed CE_NECROSIS, CE_PARALYSIS and CE_UNCONSCIOUSNESS from the zombie bite.
 - Renamed the rock trap components in the stonecutter to reflect the names of the trap overhaul.
 - Fixed Apostel/apostle spelling error. The german came through for a second there
 - Armored pets now leave items upon butchering again.
 - They also leave a "name"-steel which counts as refuse. (battered destroyed armor)
 - Removed Variable_positions:all from undead entity. Might fix the fact that they bring mounts, needs testing.
 - Added [MATERIAL_FORCE_MULTIPLIER:INORGANIC:ADAMANTINE:3:1] to Frost Giants. This means they should take 3 times as much damage from adamantine as usual. Holy dwarven metal for the win.
 - Fixed hotkeys for the new soap reactions (stack of 10 soap tallow & oil)
 - Added reaction to make black ink from ash+jug to scriptorium
 - All bock writing now needs ink.
 - Splitted combat books into melee and ranged.
 - Added 2 new epic books for them, "Be water my friend" and "47 ways to headshots"
 - Updated to 34.04 !!!
 - Fixed scale  tanning => now produces scale  plate
 - Fixed chitin tanning => now produces chitin plate
   (If you have better names for them, be my guest. Currently they are common/rare/exotic shell/scale/chitin plate)
 - Added violent reactions 2% to all new smelting/fuel needing reactions. (optional)
 - Added a variety of smoke effects to reactions:
    - Black smoke (harmless) for everything that uses fuel or has to do with burning. always.
    - Grey dust (harmless) for everyting that cuts/works with stones. always.
    - Yellow sparks (harmless) to the "hammer metal" reactions in the crucible. always.
    - Brown sawdust (harmless) for all timberyard reactions. always.
    - White alcohol vapors (dizzieness) for all alcohol related reactions. low chance.
    - Violet(miasma colored) stench (nausea) to tanning. low chance
    - Green bacteria dust (nausea, dizzieness, fever) to all reaction using raw food stuff. low chance.

 - Replaced non-working link to manual with a .bat-file. Thanks to thoth.
 - Added a plant chart that lists all infos about the additional plants. Thanks to seraphyx.
 - Worked on Golems. You can make them militia captians now and draft them into a 1 man squad.
 - Worked on Turrets. Made Hellfire, Slade and Warpstone (the good ones) should not appear with free migrants anymore. Only 1:1000 should be one.
 - Renamed Zombie Thieves to [PROFESSION_NAME:THIEF:wanderer:wanderers] As in: A lone zombie wandered close to your fortress and was spotted, a good sign for coming hordes.
 - Added 6 secret dwarf castes with a very low chance of arrival. Check your logs, they leave a message once a month.
 - Changed living stone tile to avoid confusion with metals
 - Worked again on cave fungus slime
 - Removed duplicate Tower Shield
 - Raised blob frequency from 20 to 40
 - Added a custom language for drow
 - Added custom profession names for slaves. Laborers: Enslaved "laborname" Fighters: "name" gladiator
 - Updated Therapist and Mouse Fortress to 34.04
 - Removed the tanning of shells. The people have spoken.
 - Added likes_fighting to dwarves and prone-to-rage to golems. Seems that they work now.
 - Added a couple of new prefstrings, mostly plants
 - Added 4 new reptiles, one of them the drake, a new pet
 - You can shear the drake for scales
 - Renamed the fake animal "common:common:common" to ":::" MUCH nicer naming for items.
 - Added custom drake sprite
 - Fixed golem body
 - Updated GUI
 - Updated Phoebus Tileset
 - Added custom graphics for most new creatures
 - Added custom truetype font
 - Fixed hotkey for gun research reaction
 - Nerfed automaton knockout gas
 - Removed disease resistance of legion/berserker dwarf
 - Added no_breathe to some zombies, for testing. Think with the new ramps it will turn out alright.
 - Added steel back to greenskins. Rusty Iron was too weak aparently.
 - Updated manual
 - Added seraphys plant chart
 - Added readmes for hotkey.exe, mouse.exe, and phoebus.

[Zuku]

Topside

Part 1 of living section

Part 2 of living section

Workshops

There are some extra things but thats the "main part" of the fort, and about thoes dead things they are truly dead and burried (for the moment) dwarfs/caravans.

There have been a constant war on the map between Zombies(both orginal ones and MW), Withe tigers, Caravans, Kobolds(both orginal and MW), Goblins, Titans, Mega beasts, Orcs, Warlocks(Both dead and living) and now at the end blood cyclopes and giants entred the fray.

The fort is currently running on an average of 20-40 fps :/ so its a good time to start a new and build a real fortress this time

[Meph]

Did you bunker in and let the invaders fight among themselves ? If yes, then that is at least a very good test, and a succesful one, for the different ethics. Seems to work that they fight among each other

Pleased to hear that.

[Zuku]

Did you bunker in and let the invaders fight among themselves ? If yes, then that is at least a very good test, and a succesful one, for the different ethics. Seems to work that they fight among each other

Pleased to hear that.

Aye majority of the time i did, got hit by a Mega beast very early and it killed 3/4 of my dwarf population. So it was later on when I hade a stable population of 90 dwarf (aprox later 6 years hade passed) when started to fight both the undergrounds megabeast and sieges aboveground

And later on the invaders stop fighting the caravans and become like semi neutral (for an example the walking dead would protect the caravans from some invaders like Withe tigers, Goblins and Kobolds)

[Meph]

Awesome randomness

I made a little material guide, since several people asked about one. Thought I post it here as well, why not. ^^ It shows a sorted list by weight for blunt weapons, shear values for edged weapons and value.

Metal Guide:

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[Lexx]

Ok since you released the 34.04 version It seems to behave in world gen now. Looking forward to finally playing this.

[UncleCern]

At this rate I'm unsure I will ever finish this challange :] You spam new releases faster than I can play (which is NICE actually).

[alagon]

Normally I would just enjoy reading posts, but I really like the idea of this mod, and I decide to participate in your challenge!

I just started a new fort under your latest version, (which is 1.5), and still at around year one.

I am but a causul player, so I embarked at a calm and cold mountain region as sissy as always. I thought it will be like my normal peaceful first year, calm, eventless, making tons of stone crafts for trade, and fast forwarding my fort to the 2nd year without worrying anything (not even making any defense). However, I was so wrong.

In the begining of game (right after the intial pause at embark), I did notice an immidiately combat log showed up at top left hand side. Funny thing is it said my fisherman guy was not attacking anyting but studing some area. (The message was blue and said: "the fishcleaner studies the refuse stockpile.") The same combat log appered several times afterward, but I did not care too much. However, it was on summer, that this guy turned to be a Necromancer in disguse, and dropped quite a chaos deep in the fort. I was quite shock because it has never happend to me before. Afraid he was going to do something really really bad, I immediately moblized my two miners into combat squad, and eliminated him on sight. So, this combat log may be some kind of bug?? I mean if I read it next time, I will know this guy probably a necromancer.

Now, this fisherman was 1 of the intial 7, and was long acquaintance with the rest of the 6. One of em is even his friend, so it has became quite a drama in the fort. Espeically his friend, who witnessed the killing blow right next to the struck site, was very upset. He throwed tanturm several time, but calm out pretty soon afterward. Still went insane and melancholy in Fall. Amazing first 2 seasons for me for sure!!!

Now, some new migrants arrived in fall, and I did notice something strange. First of all, the initial 7 embarked with zero social skills, but I did not care too much. However, all of my first wave of 7 migrants came with zero social skills as well, and that worries me a bit. Can be a bug??

So far, I am almost finished the first year, because I am really playing it slow. (Don't know what will happen to me under this mod, lol) But I am really enjoyed this feeling, and will try playing a bit more the next two days on my day-off. Will put more feedback if I may!!

Again, thank you for the great mod!! It really brings my interests back to DF!!

[alagon]

Sorry if I behave like double posting.

I forget to mention a weird thing. The necromancer died a horrible death (imaging he was picking to death by miners). He died of bleeding, according to the report, however there was no body to be found. Only his fractured right hand left on the thing. His body went just *puffed* in the Air.

I remembered I ticked the corpse stay option, and I killed a badger bear which did leave a corpse behind. So, what might be the problem?? Just reporting!

I was so wrong, I ticked the wrong option. So yes, I accidentally ticked the corpse gone button. Am I too late to change it back now??

I am sorry for my stupidity.

[Meph]

When you change the options you would need to gen a new world. Sorry, no way around it. But you reduce clutter with it, so it is ok. Be sure to make a memorial slab for him though, otherwise you will have a ghostly necromancer after a while.

The combat log is intended. I would rather just have it as a normal report, like: "dwarf created a masterwork" but if it has to be a combat log, ok.

Seems I have to trim down the pop-ratio a bit, these guys should be more rare. There are several kinds, and other might have been more hostile/harder to kill.

[cludgo]

ghostly necromancer you say? will this ghostly necromancer raise up zombies?

[Meph]

Absolutely yes 

[Meph]

>::: DOWNLOAD ::: PHOEBUS (V1.5.1 for DF 34.05):::<

Changelog:

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 - Added Caste Guide done by flobulon and me
 - Added transparency to sprites, thanks to flobulon
 - Deleted steel upgrades
 - Renamed drakes (male duck) to ducks
 - Fixed human entity typo
 - Changed values in wood inorganic files a bit
 - Renamed 2 of the new alloys to "welded" material name
 - Fixed free rope reed reaction
 - Lowered thread amount from "unravel cloth" reaction
 - Changed values for the special ammo a bit
 - Reworked all material values a bit
 - Made three new Guides, Wood, Metal, Misc Material
 - Fixed hammer iron reaction
 - Updated GUI.
 - Added two new buttons: Cavern Flavor and New Font
 - Removed one button: Refinery
 - Removed the refinery and the 4 steel upgrades
 - Updated Manual
 - Made the three caverns look completely different. RGB Colors
 - Added a third wallpaper, skeletal deer
 - Fixed Knuckle Duster attack wording
 - Added flobulons building Charts
 - Removed batch of 6 steel (ore) reaction from blast furnace. Too easy. Was wrought iron ore to steel, without hammering or pig iron. Down from 4 steps to 1.
 - To compensate that fact, added tose new ones:
   [PERMITTED_REACTION:PLATINUM_MAKING_BATCH]
   [PERMITTED_REACTION:ALUMINUM_MAKING_BATCH]
   [PERMITTED_REACTION:COPPER_MAKING_BATCH]
   [PERMITTED_REACTION:TIN_MAKING_BATCH]
   [PERMITTED_REACTION:BRONZE_MAKING_BATCH]
   [PERMITTED_REACTION:IRON_MAKING_BATCH]
 - Added missing [FEMALE] tags to Genie and Golden Goose. Should lay eggs now.
 - Changed Bullet/Slade turrets reaction to shoot solid globs instead of liquid globs. (Cleaning issue)
 - Added original adv. worldgen settings back in.
 - Made drakes and all armored pets only trainable for war, not hunting.
 - Fixed blob graphics. Each caste has a different color AND a sprite. Major find, at least for me.
 - Fixed Golem graphics. Each caste has a different color AND a sprite.
 - Removed trainable_war from golems, since they are intelligent now.
 - Fixed the exotic gauntlets error in two FD races
 - Fixed the bauxite environment spec stone error with vaporstone off
 - Fixed the 3 color modifier errors in creature_ff.txt
 - Burning Skulls are BACK! (burning, flaming, frozen and ghostfire castes, with 2 custom sprites)
 - Finished another 6 Building Guides
 - Added a gender character to the custom Font
 - Made custom font approx. 75% bigger
 - Raised Petvalue for domestic birds from 10 to 30.
 - Added reacion to craftsman: Make bone block.
 - Added two new buildings, the Urn of sacred Ashes and the Church of Dark Depths.
 - Many new magic related features in those.
 - Moved spells and runic wards from trap engineer to the magic buildings.
 - Made the wards aviable as a ranged weapon to dwarves.
 - Updated to 34.05
 - Added caste patch for therapist, done by splinterz
 - Updated dfhack
 - Special thanks to narhiril, for the example interactions. You are a lifesaver

Important for testing: How do the caverns look and how do they look after you breached all three of them ? Hope they dont mix too much.

How is the magic system treating you ? You need slade and adamantine, as well as tradegoods from humans or drow to set it up, so I dont expect an answer in short games.

Are many people having issues with extinct races ? No caravans after a few years... ?

[ItchyBeard]

Awesome... I've been waiting for this.

Starting a new fort now on a desert map.

Before I forget, a couple of trivial things regarding the settings manager:

• When turning sound ON, it would be convenient if it also increased volume from the default 0 (to 255) and did the reverse when turning sound off. Perhaps also disable the widget (grey it out) when sound is off.
• Processor priority button currently toggles it lower rather than higher. I'm assuming that the common operation people will want will be to make DF 'REALTIME' - so it's currently toggling the wrong way. It's also a bit odd that it's under the utilities tab - I'd have assumed this would be something a lot of people would want to change - perhaps move the button to the first tab and make it REALTIME by default?

Also a query - does turning off trader toys also break certain features? I get irritated with trader clutter, but still want them to bring certain 'special' things which have special uses (I'm assuming they're considered toys). Running with defaults currently (which is trader toys on), so won't be an issue for this fort, just curious. If it does break certain features with it off, then a note on the tooltip might be an idea.